Anonymously Famous wrote:Originally or now? Now it's mostly an excuse to dress up and party, and for your kids to go up to people and ask for candy.

It originally had something to do with celebrating the dead (ancestors, etc.), I believe.

It's strange how did it get there.

We kinda also have halloween here now, but it's basically just globalization. But it's still the day of the dead officially. Mostly people going to cemeteries cleaning up the graves of their dead. Putting more dead flowers on.

Edit: Oh, and by the way we have the dress-up-as-something fun times around february, "scaring the winter away".

It apparently also has something to do with an ancient Celtic festival that celebrated the end of harvesting season. It apparently also involved dressing up and going door to door for snacks (This was when chocolate was still limited to the new world only, so the snacks were apples and nuts and such).